Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Replies to Perelman, Schneiderman, Hahnel, Meyer, Proyect
Farmer Perelman said:
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction
credits, why not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding
people for historical patterns of pollution?
Replies to Perelman, Schneiderman, Hahnel, Meyer, Proyect
Farmer Perelman said:
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction
credits, why not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding
people for historical patterns of pollution?
This is not AT ALL the way permits
Does the coal miner jobs problem suggest an approach that the Swede's
developed in their macroeconomic policies?
This approach is their combination of labor market and solidaristic wage
policies that keep employment and inflation low by moving workers out
of unproductive firms? The crucial
One healthy antidote (among many) to the political problems involved in "red
vs. green" is the work of Jorge Hardoy (Argentine planner, now deceased) and
Co. in the journal Environment and Urbanization. Looking principally at the
3rd World, they focus their environmental concerns on living
There is one serious political problem with pollution taxes --
one I believe is solvable. Much of the right wing of the
environmental movement hopes to sell green taxes by substituting them
for all
MBS: Actually the latest rage is to substitute them for
payroll taxes, which is
Does the coal miner jobs problem suggest an approach that the Swede's
developed in their macroeconomic policies?
This approach is their combination of labor market and solidaristic wage
policies that keep employment and inflation low by moving workers out
of unproductive firms? The crucial
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: boucher, epi and coal
Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising. EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from the
perspective of the coal miners.
Let's try to be a little more precise
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: boucher, epi and coal
Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising.
I did not mean this as a criticism of you.
EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from
If government gives away emissions permits, then clearly
corporations do not benefit as a group, since one firm's
sale is another's purchase. If the government sells them,
corporations are net losers in the aggregate. This does
not mean of course, that the trading scheme would
Max brings up an interesting challenge. I disagree with him, but I do not
have enough factual evidence to clinch my case.
I am sure that the poor are hurt more by pollution than they are helped by
the decrease in costs.
Any suggestions?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
These are the issues that Tom Athanasiou covers in "Divided Planet." Also,
check out Mark Dowie's "Losing Ground", a stinging critique of the
pro-corporate drift of mainstream groups. Finally, everybody who has even
the slightest interest in these questions should subscribe to Counterpunch,
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction credits, why
not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding people for
historical patterns of pollution?
In the case of Southern California, companies buy old junked cars, under the
assumption that the hulk would run and spew
At 05:54 p.m. 2/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction credits, why
not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding people for
historical patterns of pollution?
In the case of Southern California, companies buy old junked cars, under the
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
If government gives away emissions permits, then clearly
corporations do not benefit as a group, since one firm's
sale is another's purchase. If the government sells them,
corporations are net losers in the aggregate.
For every tradable pollution permit
At 03:46 PM 2/23/98 +, Max wrote:
Environmentalism in the large is about raising the costs
of consumption that is most susceptible to taxation under
current circumstances.
Maybe DC is populated mostly with bone-headed liberal environmentalists
whose version of "environmentalism" would fit
Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising. EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from the
perspective of the coal miners.
Here is a real and serious environmental problem. The corporations will
make out with their emissions trading and the workers
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